Great cycling cities of the future

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I can’t help thinking that the mayor of one you would never have thought of as such, Paris, is set on creating one.

I’m highly biased, as Paris has long been my favourite city,. At the moment it is a traffic hell, mostly becaus bike paths are being renewed, resurfaced, and even created throughout. Not only that, but many of the newer paths are marked a car doors width away from street parking areas.

The trail along the Seine (pronounced as Sen, by the way) is sure to become a must do.

There is, however, a downside. Those blasted electric scooters are everywhere, taking up valuable cycling space. They have the advantage that you can pick them up anywhere, unlike vėlib and newer mass transit bikes, so be prepared to share your new path with them.

Unfortunately you can say that about virtually every city. Never really noticed much in the way of street crime, by the way. Didn’t mention it, but many of the Metro stations are being revamped, too.
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London trumps Paris for cleanliness and civilisation. A lot of the improvement started with Ken Livingstone. I remember him being interviewed on TV after the TDF started in London. Wearing his trademark white jacket Ken said in his nasal voice: "Yes this has been one of two of my ideas that has worked out better than I expected... the other being congestion charging!"

Veteran

My abiding memories of Paris are largely olfactory: the combined smell of sweet crepes (pronounced crep btw) and stale urine. And a beautiful woman on the metro in a chanel suit who stank like a polecat!

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My abiding memories of Paris are largely olfactory: the combined smell of sweet crepes (pronounced crep btw) and stale urine. And a beautiful woman on the metro in a chanel suit who stank like a polecat!

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Paris..
My one and only visit to Paris.
Hotel manager tried to rip us off.
Taxi driver Did rip us off.
My wife was within a few seconds from being a victim of a young female pick pocket gang on the metro, foiled by me.
They had all her bag zips opened ready for the grab at the next stop.

I spent my weekend continually on full alert, gangs of black Africans trying to surround us and part us with anything they could.
Night time... Very unsafe feeling.
Most attractions seemed to be the hang outs for smoking weed, un-checked by police.
Rude police.
Quite rude locals, despite trying to speak french..